HOW time flies! Today marks the beginning of
the quartet of September, October, November
and December – otherwise known as the ember
months. These are the crowning or capping
months of every calendar year.
Rightly or wrongly, many believe that these
are fast-paced months. Some, superstitiously,
believe that the ember months come with evil
foreboding. What no one can deny, however, is
the fact that road mishaps, banks and internet
frauds, armed robbery and other criminal
activities are usually in the ascendancy during
this period which also serves as annual
convention and thanksgiving season for most
faith-based organizations (FBOs).
Experts’ explanation for the high rate of crime
and accidents recorded during this period has
to do with the frenzy and obsession to end the
year on a note of grandeur and financially well-
oiled celebration(s). In the bid to catch up with
the Joneses, like the Americans would say,
every Tom, Dick and Harry resort to both
legitimate and illegitimate sources of
generating additional income in readiness for
the spending spree that usually characterize
this period of the year.
While swindlers and scammers throw their
spanners to work with a view to defrauding as
many victims as possible, women of easy
virtues also see this period as a season of boom
for their sinful and dehumanizing trade. Sadden
still, our commercial drivers usually throw
caution to the wind, overloading their vehicles
and speeding with reckless abandon all in a bid
to increase the number of trips in a day and
rake in extra money during this period. The
unfortunate outcome is usually increase in road
mishaps and needless loss of human lives.
These warped mindsets and extreme
approaches to the ember months are
unfortunate and condemnable. We view this
period as one of stocktaking and evaluation
than anything else. It ought, rightly, to be a
season of looking back to see how far one has
fared vis-à-vis the targets one has set for the
fading year. And, on the basis of such
retrospective evaluation, what becomes
expedient is some level of restrategizing to
ensure that the set goals are achieved before
the year winds up. This, certainly, can be done
without recourse to criminality or illegitimacy.
We find it curious that many wait for the ember
months to set in before they embark on an
avoid rush and frenzy to get so many things
done. Like they say in Africa, why wait for the
war before embarking on arms acquisition? This
is a cut and dried case of planlessness that is
avoidable in the first place. We, therefore, call
on individuals and even organisastions to resort
to meticulous planning as well as set feasible
goals at the dawn of every year as antidote to
the needless fire-brigade approach to the end-
of-year seasons.
Since prevention, they say, is better than cure,
the onus is on the security agencies,
particularly the Police to ensure adequate
security and a crime-free society during this
period; the Federal Road Safety Commission
(FRSC) to evolve strategies that would reduce
to the barest minimum incidents of road
mishap and so on.
Deltans and, by extension, Nigerians should
realize that security is a collective
responsibility. They should, therefore,
collaborate with security agencies by
volunteering useful information that would aid
their operations and, more importantly, strive
to live within the confines of the law
throughout this season and beyond.

Rightly said man..... Tank u






Y'all welcomed to September, d beginning of d ember months!

Na kidnsping and money rituals dey reign pass but Ebola fear go check dat one small

Pple should stop being afraid of this month all u need to do is take precautions and be carefull and of course drive safe